riprowan

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   by riprowan 10y ago

   Are you actually arguing that a USB-C / Lightning connector will be more reliable than a 3.5mm analog connector? You'll have to produce data to back that up.
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   by riprowan 10y ago

   I've heard it said that real estate is a risky investment. On the other hand, it's really hard to raise a family of four in a mutual fund.
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   by riprowan 10y ago

   Of course not. Audio processing is handled by a third party.
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   by riprowan 10y ago

   As an older consumer I have found that as I age I am more and more sensitive to these sorts of effects. I used to love to play games, now I can only play "unrealistic" games. Anything 1st person makes me sick. This effect gets w
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   by riprowan 10y ago

   > This is never rational, and never something that you have to do. Not sure I agree with that. The real world is full of mutually exclusive moral problems, like when "do unto others" runs directly into "first do no harm&qu
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   by riprowan 10y ago

   My guess is that the chief obstacle will be political: this has the potential to hit the most powerful people in the world directly in the pocketbook He's probably going to India probably because there is more political will there to a
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   by riprowan 10y ago

   The biosystem can handle almost any amount of fuel-burning and release of CO2 from fuels that came from the biosystem. In that regard, burning is like recycling. The problem is that we pump CO2 from outside the biosphere (from deep undergr
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   by riprowan 10y ago

   Are there not hydrogen rich microzones (volcanic fissues? atmospheric layers?) where these might thrive? I'm not actually worried about bugs taking over the world. But we ought to avoid hand-waving away possible unintended consequence
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   by riprowan 10y ago

   I'd guess these are coded in assembler, or possibly Fortran.
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    Google, stop being evil, shut up, and take my money. Why can't I just pay to opt out of all this crap I don't want, and instead incentivize the businesses they actually get right?
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    I find it interesting that at one time, arterial "plaque" was also considered to be some sort of residue or trash. Analysis of the plaque revealed high levels of cholesterol, so the "trash" was obviously caused by the c
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    Unfortunately you are pointing directly at a major reason why the world forgot about Bradley Manning the war crimes exposer: she changed her name to Chelsea Manning and the media story changed to transgenderism / trans rights. So, basi
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    First off - what a great idea! How am I just finding out about this? As an audio engineer, I know the first thing I want to use this on: a drum kit. Separate the cymbals from the skins!! Separate out the room sound from the direct sounds
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    > the law defines what is ethical The law defines what is permitted, not what is ethical.
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    Nice bios. Would rather read about what they're building.
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    I always tell my clients that mastering is the final step in mixing: it's the part where the mix engineer gives the mix to a different engineer in a different studio with a different system and different ears and different gear and dif
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    And all compression is distortion.
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    $1.4M http://www.geek.com/apps/tsa-paid-1-4-million-for-randomizer...
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    Great sacrifice was also made for the Chinese people to enjoy the way of life that they do not yet have. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01651/tiananmen_...
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    I agree that the throughput capabilities of Bitcoin are absurd, and that Lightning network is not a substitute for onchain transactions. However, did you know that the hashrate and transaction throughput are almost entirely unrelated? Hash
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    Sorry if this is a dumb question, but if Gmail is e2e, how can Google harvest user data from it?
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    We have nothing to fear as long as we can learn and adapt as a society faster than robots can take our places. The question is, for how long will that realistically continue?
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    > I don't think that's the first occurrence of a "repeat" phrase... I always thought this came from shampoo: "lather, rinse, repeat."
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    Extranet for Very Large Company, circa 1999. X0,000s of users, X0,000,000s of docs. Platform: Lotus Notes / Domino.
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    Why should one need to buy a liability insurance policy on a self-driving car? What driver exactly am I insuring?
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    Came here to say this. I bumped my head hard on this part of the text - the whole point of using a cliche is that it's immediately understandable. When I come across an incrementing loop that doesn't use a cliche variable like &
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    Do you have an example of such a chart for the terminally lazy such as myself?
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    Somehow TSA manages to get by with only ten people where other countries would use three.
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    Little known fact: Milton Friedman supported basic income concept as an improvement over the welfare state.
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    by riprowan 10y ago

    This entire concept sinks or swims on its ability to accurately estimate and control scope.